Gemcraft is a tower defense game with pretty explosions that remind me of firecrackers. Warning: if you start playing, you might keep playing for long amounts of time.

I've been enjoying listening to some podcasts, such as Sunday Baroque Conversations (link is to RSS feed), Fledgling, a novel by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Stephen Fry's Podgrams ( Read more... )

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses the titles and artists correctly and put the name of the song/who sings it and the username of the person who guessed it at the end of the lyric.
Step 4: Looking ( Read more... )

"Radiation is plural and differentiable ( Read more... )

Hee hee. Vorkosigan Universe and Doctor Who Universe crossover fic can be found here and here. It works surprisingly better than I thought it would.

Here is a video of the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra using vegetables as musical instruments, including carrot recorders and celery root bongos and a leek string instrument like a washtub bass.

I like the part (at about 2:50) where the woman says "This piece is dedicated to...cabbage."

The Oddmusic Gallery has summaries of unusual musical ( Read more... )

Spirit of the Century is a pulp-themed role-playing game. (Pulp link may be NSFW, but I thought it gave a more colourful summary than the Wikipedia pulp page.) One of the things that makes Spirit of the Century cool is that the characters have backstory with each other, and that this back story is part of the character creation process and has ( Read more... )

One of the best things about being awake at six in the morning is listening to Tom Allen on CBC Radio 2's Music and Company. Today I learned that flint can be a musical instrument, that Blackbeard put hemp ropes in his beard and set them on fire, and that a "French Overture" is often neither French nor an overture to something. Tom Allen has a ( Read more... )

Goodbye Hegemony

Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley

Kevin Kelly's article on what might do well in a world where copies are free. He names eight things: immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility, embodiment, patronage, findability.

Culture Is Destiny; A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew

MapEcos - A ( Read more... )

I've had this song in my head recently:

The more we get together, together, together,
The more we are together the happier we'll be.

Masai warriors run a marathon in London, England (via flying_squirrel)
"The six warriors, who were running in shoes cut from old car tyres, were hoping to raise £60,000 for their village ( Read more... )